#2 Back to Methuselah, 1921

3. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

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Excerpt from Wikipedia: George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Anglo-Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture, and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1903), Pygmalion (1913), and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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#3 Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva

4. Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

#5 Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893)

5. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. (Vivie, Act II)

#6 The Devil’s Disciple, Act II (1901)

6. The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

#7 Man and Superman, Maxims: Liberty and Equality, 1903

7. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

#8-11 Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists, 1903

8. Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

9. Do not do unto others as you would expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

10. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.

11. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

#12 Pygmalion (1912)

12. What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.